Forty nine new awards have been made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for their Fellowship scheme. This scheme is aimed at ensuring lone scholars in the arts and humanities have a voice.
The latest round of AHRC Fellowships totalling over £2.5m of awards has just been made. Forty nine researchers have been funded in this round and the project topics cover a broad range of arts and humanities disciplines.
The AHRC Fellowship scheme represents the AHRC’s commitment to funding the research time needed to undertake world-leading research with impact and to support the career development of outstanding researchers in the arts and humanities. It is also a route for early career researchers, which provides for mentoring and career development support.
The Fellowship scheme allows for:
• highly flexible funding for researchers seeking to devote between 50% and 100% of their time over periods of up to nine months to undertake research in any areas within the AHRC’s remit.
• funding of up to £120,000 (100% FEC) to include research costs and communication and dissemination activities to maximise the impact of the research outcomes.
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AHRC Media Contact Jake Gilmore j.gilmore@ahrc.ac.uk Tel: 01793 41 6021
Notes to editors:
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Each year the AHRC provides approximately £100 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes many hundreds of research awards and funds over 1,100 postgraduate places. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK.
LATEST AHRC FELLOWSHIP AWARDS SPRING 2011
Dr Elaine Kelly University of Edinburgh Composing the Canon: Narratives of Romanticism in the German Democratic Republic Sch of Arts Culture and Environment £67,607.00
Dr Grace Brockington University of Bristol Vanessa Bell's 'Experimental Works', 1912-1917 School of Humanities £62,622.00
Dr David Milne University of East Anglia Intellectualism in U.S. Diplomacy Political, Social and International £53,387.00
Dr Kathleen Gough University of Glasgow Haptic Allegories: Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic Theatre Film & Television Studies £41,884.00
Dr Dominic Janes Birkbeck College Political and Sexual Deviance and Images of Martyrdom in Modern Britain History of Art and Screen Media £33,306.00
Dr Luca Rubini University of Birmingham The regulation of legitimate subsidies in the WTO Law School £63,280.00
Dr Andrew Schaap University of Exeter Human Rights and the Political: Insurgent Citizenship at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, Australia 1972- Politics £52,921.00
Professor Ralph PITE University of Bristol Robert Frost: The Life of a Friendship. A critical and biographical study of the poet Robert Frost that focusses on his friendship with Edward Thomas. School of Humanities £83,212.00
Professor Philip Shaw University of Leicester Suffering and Sentiment on Romantic Military Art English £50,695.00
Dr Ben Murtagh School of Oriental & African Studies Gay, Lesbian and Waria Representations in Indonesian Cinema Lang and Cultures of SE Asia and Islands £42,762.00
Dr Robert Adlington University of Nottingham Notes of Dissent: Avant-garde Music in 1960s Amsterdam Music £50,471.00
Professor Griselda Pollock University of Leeds After-affect/After-image: Trauma and Aesthetic Inscription/Encryption in the Virtual Feminist Museum Sch of Fine Art History of Art&Cult Stud £55,667.00
Dr Fiona Fisher Kingston University Modernism in the Suburbs: A Critical Study of the Architecture and Design of Kenneth Wood Associates,1955-1984 Sch of Art and Design History £81,272.00
Dr Karin Friedrich University of Aberdeen 'Bordercrossing': Transational nobility, political and confessional loyalty in the Polish-German borderlands, ca. 1600-1720 School of Divinity, History and Philosop £53,745.00
Professor Richard Bradley London School of Economics & Pol Sci Decision Theory with a Human Face Philosophy £82,842.00
Dr Sarah Hill Cardiff University A Cultural History of Popular Music in San Francisco (1965-69) Music £73,431.00
Dr Michael Haslam University of Oxford Stone Technology in Late Pleistocene India: A new perspective on the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa Archaeology and History of Art Res Lab £69,444.00
Dr David Barnett University of Sussex A History of the Berliner Ensemble Sch of English £74,308.00
Dr Seán Molloy University of Edinburgh A Critical-Historical Investigation into the Philosophical Roots of Realist Ethics in International Relations Theory Politics £68,120.00
Dr Wiebke Thormählen University of Southampton Domestic Music-Making in England, 1780-1820 School of Humanities £55,058.00
Professor Stephen Milner The University of Manchester Partial Rhetoric: Florentine Civic Republicanism and the Premodern State Languages Linguistics and Cultures £85,493.00
Professor Christoph Bluth University of Leeds Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions and Conventional Forces in Europe During the Cold War Politics and International Studies £92,051.00
Dr Joseph Hyde Bath Spa University An analysis of the creative process of Visual Music pioneer Oskar Fischinger from a practice-led perspective Sch of Music and the Performing Arts £39,329.00
Professor Vikki Bell Goldsmiths College Visual Art and Justice in Transitional Argentina (post 1983) Sociology £78,101.00
Professor Alexander Bird University of Bristol Scientific Knowledge School of Arts £48,257.00
Dr Davide Deriu University of Westminster Picturing Modern Ankara: 'New Turkey' in Western Imagination Sch of Architecture & Built Environment £59,694.00
Dr Ruth Dukes University of Glasgow The Constitutional Function of Labour Law School of Law £65,675.00
Dr Stewart Field Cardiff University Making sense of youth justice: a comparative study of Italy and Wales Cardiff Law School £40,360.00
Dr Miles Larmer University of Sheffield Local Identities and Transnational Conflict: the Katangese Gendarmes and Central-Southern Africa's Forty-years war, 1960-1999 History £66,282.00
Dr Robert Collins Newcastle University The End of Empire: The northern frontier in the fourth-fifth centuries AD Historical Studies £20,838.00
Dr Linda Flores University of Oxford Murderous Mothers and Maternal Subjectivity in Modern Japanese Literature Oriental Institute £33,087.00
Professor Jens R Hentschke Newcastle University 'School Reform and Nation-Building from Varela to Batlle: Uruguay as a Crossroad of Ideas in the River Plate, 1868-1915' School of Modern Languages £70,799.00
Dr Klaus Abels University College London Linguistic universals and the order of verbs in Germanic Linguistics £33,201.00
Professor Michel Hockx School of Oriental & African Studies Internet Literature in China Lang and Culture of China and Inner Asia £56,308.00
Dr Pascale Aebischer University of Exeter Beyond Shakespeare: Screening Early Modern Drama English £63,907.00
Professor Timothy Chappell Open University Making Good Decisions: Theory, Reflection, and Practice in Ethics Philosophy £40,883.00
Dr Catherine Clay Nottingham Trent University Feminism, Journalism and British Literary Culture, 1920-1945: A Study of Time and Tide Sch of Arts and Humanities £58,687.00
Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier University of Nottingham 'Suffering and Sunset': Horace Pippin's World War I Manuscripts and Paintings Sch of American and Canadian Studies £45,383.00
Dr Ankhi Mukherjee University of Oxford 'What is a Classic?' Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon English Faculty £34,375.00
Professor Isabelle, Anne Perez Heriot-Watt University Negotiating the ethical maze in interpreter-mediated investigative interviews, towards an operational model for interpreting and police professionals Sch of Management and Languages £37,672.00
Dr Nicola McLelland University of Nottingham German through English eyes: German language and culture(s) in language textbooks for British learners (1680-2000) German £41,305.00
Dr Paul Oldfield Manchester Metropolitan University Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 History and Economic History £57,894.00
Dr Rob Lutton University of Nottingham The Cult of the Holy Name of Jesus in Late Medieval and Reformation England Sch of History £58,504.00
Professor Karen Leeder University of Oxford Spectres of the GDR: The Haunting of the Berlin Republic Medieval & Modern Languages Fac £88,657.00
Professor Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford Linguistic diversity, biodiversity and poverty: Global patterns and priorities English Faculty £55,127.00
Dr Abdulrazzak Patel University of Oxford The Arab Renaissance: Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement Oriental Institute £60,126.00
Dr Konstantinos Vlassopoulos University of Nottingham Greeks and Barbarians: Connected Histories (archaic-hellenistic periods) Classics £58,988.00
Dr Neal Curtis University of Nottingham On Sovereignty and Superheroes Sch of Modern Languages and Cultures £43,833.00
Dr Marcos Martinon-Torres University College London The archaeology of alchemy and chemistry in the early modern world Institute of Archaeology £74,975.00